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Prisoners of want : the experience and protest of the unemployed in France, 1921-45 by Matt Perry is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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"Prisoners of Want examines the experience of the unemployed and their protests in France in the interwar years. Little has been written on the experience of unemployment in France despite the wealth of material - social and medical investigations, government reports, novels, memoirs and newspapers - that can be used to reconstruct the representation and reality of the experience. Assessing the impact of unemployed protest upon the authorities (in terms of policy and the longer term development of the welfare state) this book places the role of the unemployed in the wider context of European social movements in the 1930s, as well as considering the significance of unemployed protests upon the French collective memory. The part played by the French Communist Party in the creation and leadership of the movements of the unemployed, and the range of activities these movements undertook, is also explored. From self-help to protests, hunger marches, demonstrations, relief work, school strikes, town hall occupations and riots; all were strategies that the unemployed utilised to draw attention to their plight. Crucial to explaining the characteristics of these movements is an understanding
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- Author
- Matt Perry
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780815391142
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Management, Economics